1125 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
1125 projects · showing 481–510
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Epilepsy is generally diagnosed using electroencephalograms, or EEGs, which detect the electrical activity in a person's brain. Signals recorded from neurological tissue are extremely noisy,…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is a cancer that arises from squamous cells in the head and neck region, a type of cell found in the outer layers of skin and lining various muc…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
On Mars, there must be a method for construction which uses the available resources, a process known as “in situ resource utilization”. While regular concrete is composed of water, aggregate…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Aging is associated with metabolic changes in the body as well as adaptations to age-related changes in order to maintain functional mechanisms in the body. An example of a potential compens…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology Fourth Award
Plant-parasitic nematodes account for 14% crop losses globally and $157 billion lost annually. Root-knot nematodes are yield-limiting and threaten crop production. Toxic chemicals, such as o…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Year 3 of this project tested how the filtration system can further be improved upon. A filtration system was created that runs off of only solar energy and ocean currents to filter the ocea…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Within this culture of choice, there is a need for a new, more helpful and descriptive model of adolescent Jewish identity formation that portrays the crucial role individual choices play in…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) is an inhibitory receptor that provides a checkpoint against autoimmunity. The PD-1:PD-L1 signalling pathway inhibits T cell function, which allows cancer cell…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences Third Award
More than 72 billion pounds of food goes to waste globally while 50 million people struggled with hunger in 2020. To combat this, packinghouses coat produce with a fruit wax that must be hea…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Ebola virus disease (EVD) causes hemorrhagic fever infection with a mortality rate of up to 90%. Current treatments, mostly experimental, require medical equipment and facilities often not a…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences
Microgreens have the potential to play a significant role in the intake of vegetables by children, by members of communities with restricted access to fresh vegetables, and are even being co…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
There are thousands of people who have movement disabilities and have difficulty with simple tasks such as carrying a grocery bag or pushing a door open. The muscle controlled exoskeleton is…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Artificial neural networks are biologically inspired computational structures that are capable of learning how to perform tasks heuristically. They derive this ability by imitating the struc…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences Third Award
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a movement disorder with classical motor impairments in PD patients including akinesia, resting tremor, and muscle rigidity. The pathological hallmark of PD is th…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Rapid Intensification (RI), a 30+ kt increase in a storm’s 1-minute maximum sustained winds, is a potentially catastrophic event occurring within tropical cyclones. The leading current RI mo…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology Second Award
Annually in the U.S., over 1 million hospitalized patients acquire surgical site infections (SSIs), urinary tract infections (UTIs), or central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry Second Award
There exist evolutionarily-conserved genetic similarities between signals for planarian regeneration and human inflammation. The ROS-activated TRPA1 ion channel is implicated in planarian re…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics have become ubiquitous in marine ecosystems. Toxic chemicals can leach from microplastics posing significant health risks to marine life. Removal of microplastics is difficult…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences
The purpose of this project is to determine if mussels would be able to clean water that shrimp live in. Four mussels were put into one 10-gallon tank while another 5-10 gallon tank was setu…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
Conversion of CO2 in a scalable technology has the potential for enormous energy and environmental impact but remains a challenge. I will explore the effects of earth-abundant perovskite oxi…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences
I studied and tested the speed of photosynthesis relative to a plant’s surface area. What was found was that plants with a higher surface area can undergo photosynthesis faster than plants w…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry
The purpose of this experiment was to determine the type of rice that contained the lowest starch concentration – raw, parboiled, jasmine, basmati, or sticky. The researcher hypothesized raw…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
The diversity and effectiveness of plastic items testify for the utility of polymers. Nonetheless, the non-biodegradability of these polymers has been a source of ecological concerns. Most p…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology
Over the years too many people have been prescribed antibiotics for unnecessary reasons such as colds. This impacts not only people having side effects associated with antibiotics but also c…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Communication is vital for all organisms to grow and exchange information, regardless organizational level of the organism. There are a growing number of studies that describe the different…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology
One of the world’s greatest human health crises is antibiotic resistance. With this problem at hand, and a slim chance of discovering a new class of antibiotics, microbiologists have adjuste…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology
This experiment investigated the effectiveness of using cinnamaldehyde (CAD) and zinc in conjunction with G. chinensis to inhibit E. coli biofilm formation and to disperse preformed E. coli…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Approximately 2.2 billion people lack access to safely managed water supplies. Biological contaminants and heavy metals pose considerable threats to humanity, but are often expensive to dete…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Due to COVID-19, millions of K-12 and college students have been required to transition to online school, an underdeveloped and questionable medium for education. Even in hybrid learning pla…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences
This experiment is attempting to manipulate the coral associated microbiome by adding a collective amount of native putatively beneficial microorganisms for corals (pBMCs). Currently there i…